Anne and Patrick Poirier were born in France, she in Marseilles in 1941 and he in Nantes in 1942. Their work is an extended rumination on the nature of time and decay. All of their artworks, photographs, drawings, installation, or sculpture, deal with memory. For the Poiriers memory is the sole and vital recourse before a constantly degenerating world. It is memory and the knowledge of cultures that is the basis of all understanding between people and societies.
In a project with Art of this Century, the husband and wife artists have created a glass time capsule for the no longer usable French francs. In a world of extremely rapid and unprecedented change the Poiriers claim that we are the products of a fin-de-siecle, or at a turning point in our civilization, and the only thing we have to show for it are tattered rags of its memory. In this way the once valuable and usable French money becomes a memory as well as a symbol to a constantly shifting world.

La CASA-MEMORIA n'est pas un espace fonctionnel, et on n'y trouve aucun espace correspondant àla vie pratique. Son plan elliptique et sa forme sont la geometrisation du cerveau humain et de la boite crÃÂânienne. Le niveau infÃÂérieur est plongÃÂé dans la pÃÂénombre. Sur deux ÃÂécrans sont projetÃÂées des vidÃÂéos, lentes dÃÂérives d'images dans un apparent dÃÂésordre. C'est l'espace oÃÂù se mÃÂèlent les images du rÃÂêve et de la mÃÂémoire. Au niveau supÃÂérieur se trouve la BibliothÃÂèque. Elle entoure toute l'espace. Son organisation est chromatique.

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